Word: eggan
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...answers to those questions, says Eggan, may come in a matter of "months, not years." It's still unclear whether the new iPS nerve cells can live up to the gold standard of cells created from human embryonic stem cells, but Eggan, Henderson and their colleagues are confident that their current achievement brings stem-cell science one step closer to the original and ultimate goal: cures for diseases such as ALS, Alzheimer's and diabetes...
...current reliance on viruses renders the stem cell lines unsafe for transplantation because the process genetically modifies the reprogrammed cells. But Eggan predicted that researchers would soon fix this shortcoming with a process that instead uses chemicals to reprogram cells...
...study, which was co-authored by Henderson and Harvard professor Kevin C. Eggan, was published Thursday in the journal Science...
...cell donors—82 and 89—gave the findings added significance, as some scientists had predicted using cells from older patients would complicate the creation of stem lines, according to Eggan...
...This opens the door to being able to make patient-specific, stem cell lines from diseases which affect people very late in life like Parkinson's disease or Alzheimer's disease," Eggan said...